Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — Clause 28 — Constituency Limit on Third Party Spending — 10 Sep 2013 at 19:11

The majority of MPs voted to cap the amount a campaigner who is not a candidate or putting up candidates can spend in each individual constituency during an election period at £9,750.

MPs were considering the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill^[1][2]; they voted on the question:

• That the clause stand part of the Bill.

The clause which was the subject of the vote was Clause 28^[3]

The explanatory notes to the Bill [4] list the effects of the clause as being, in relation to general elections:

• To restrict the amount a campaigner who is not a candidate or putting up candidates can spend in each individual constituency during the regulated election period. Setting the cap at £9,750 per constituency in total, with a further restriction on what may be spent between the dissolution of Parliament and the poll.
• To require a campaigner who is not a candidate or putting up candidates to include in their required return detailing their regulated expenditure a list of constituencies where they have spent £5,850 or more during the regulated election period.
• To provide a mechanism for calculating the limits which apply where two elections are pending at the same time.

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• [1] Parliament's webpage on the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill 2013-14
• [2] Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill as introduced 17th July 2013
• [3] Clause 28 of the of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill as introduced 17th July 2013
• [4] Explanatory notes to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill as introduced 17th July 2013

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